The Kobe and LeBron puppets match up with a couple of Santa’s reindeer for a little game of three-on-three in this Christmas video from Nike. Not bad, guys, but I don’t think it’ll replace “Christmas in Hollis” as my favorite holiday rap any time soon. No Reindeer Were Harmed During the Making of This Video [...]
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The NBA’s “Where Amazing Happens” campaign is the greatest gift to Internet wise-assery since the MasterCard “Priceless” campaign. But this video may set a new high-water mark for “Where… happens” parodies: (hat tip: Jimmy Traina, Hot Clicks)
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Only because a Nuggets/Magic Finals would likely spell the end of Nike’s “Most Valuable Puppets” campaign. (Is it just me, or does the Kobe puppet look and sound a lot more like Stephen A. Smith than “The Black Mamba?”)
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What the hell? Isn’t it sort of sad that they had to “CGI” Pat’s Dunk here? Maybe they should have come up with this concept back when the big fella wasn’t an overweight assistant coach.
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Possibly the best ESPN commercial since Charlie Steiner appeared in war paint…TrueHoop has the complete set. The wax figure of Jeff Van Gundy in the spot with KG, Pierce and Allen looks particularly lifelike. (UPDATE: Apparently these got yanked from YouTube… but are available from ESPN.com directly. Links and embedded file have been updated.)
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The NBA’s marketing department used to be the envy of the sports world. Right now? Not so much. Check out the latest campaign — featuring the Pussycat Dolls of all people. Where do I begin? I could point out that the song is “holy monkey, mute the damned TV” bad… but that just scratches the [...]
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